All About HACKATHONS ......

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 Hackathons are the events in which you have to encounter real-life problems in a short span of time. Hackathons are great for anyone who wants to have a real product development experience in a short amount of time. College students may experience a fresh perspective on various problems, which helps to distill their visionary concepts down to actionable solutions. Hackathons provide ground to competitors to bring ideas into reality. If you are in college then hackathons are the best place where you can compete with lots of situations that you are going to face in your career after college. Hackathons are also known as a hack day, hackfest, codefest. Some of the hackathons are going for a short period of time, while some of them are running for a couple of weeks also. You have to create functioning hardware or software by the end of the event.

Pros of attending hackathons : 

  • Different startups founder and various well-known personalities attend hackathons so you have an excellent opportunity to build connections. "Network is the real Net-worth".
  • The most important perk of attending hackathons is free food and free cool swags.
  •  Different prizes in the form of cash or other assets are provided to the winners.
  •  Hackathons help to improve the ability of team-work, how to handle time pressure, how to deliver the best in such a situation full of constraints.
  • helps to provide industry experience while competing with smart peoples of various domains.
  • Big opportunity to build your personal branding.
  • In hackathons, you usually meet people who have the same interest, same goals which help to increase network among fellow coders.
  • Your resume/CV weighs more by the addition of your participation in hackathons. It adds value in your profile.

Organizers also have various benefits of arranging hackathons like increasing the engagement with the developer community, identifying tech talents, increases internal engagement, converting business ideas into solutions, and many more.

There are various sources via which you can participate in different hackathons. Lots of colleges arrange offline hackathons through different startups and some tech companies. some of the websites provide lots of info about hackathons just take a look at some of them : 

  1. HackerEarth ( link )
  2. Angelhack ( link )
  3. Devpost  ( link )
  4. Devfolio ( link )
  5. Major League Hacking
  6. Hackclub  ( link )
  7. Some Facebook Groups


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